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From: Jindal Shah (jindal.shah_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 11:54:00 CDT

Thanks for the suggestions. This seems to work. Downloading the files
from the remote machine is difficulty given the size of the trajectory files
~few gigabytes

Jindal

On 9/7/05, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> There's no built-in way for VMD to access remote files other than
> structures that reside in the main PDB repository. If these files can
> be downloaded via HTTP, it would be relatively simple to write a Tcl
> script
> that does this however. Yes, you can run VMD with no graphics. Just
> execute VMD with this command:
> vmd -dispdev text
>
> If you want to run VMD in a batch mode, you can do that as well by
> redirecting stdin/stdout and running it in the background. These startup
> commands are documented in the VMD User's Guide.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:25:50PM -0400, Jindal Shah wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if I can analyze the pdb files that are stored on a
> remote
> > machine
> > but using VMD installed locally. When I try to open the VMD display, it
> > returns with
> > an error that X server does not support OpenGL extension. Also, is there
> a
> > way to run
> > VMD without opening the display , i.e. in a text mode?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jindal
>
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